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Perhaps what is most interesting about #Swedengate is not what it tells us about Sweden, but what it tells us about ourselves.
Traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK, can encompass science, medicine, ecology, religion and culture – and help protect the environment.
Ukrainian families’ anguish at not being able to bury their loved ones underscores a deep human need, an anthropologist writes.
The South African Khoe-San communities are no strangers to exploitative research. One research team is trying to provide genetic ancestry results to community members. But they still face many challenges.
The Ukrainian crisis is probably the biggest crowdsourced humanitarian aid operation ever undertaken.
Uncertainty must be embraced and harnessed for the better because stability never lasts long.
A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
How Rekambo chimpanzees demonstrate a number of ground breaking behaviours never seen before in animals.
If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
Gift-giving might seem needlessly cumbersome and stressful. But the costs and benefits of the custom aren’t what they seem.
A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.
It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
Laws and rituals surrounding disease have been part of everyday life for millennia. Here’s why that’s important.
Walking has taken a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly 4.4 million years ago.
Human beings evolved to nurture – and that drive can extend to children who aren’t your own and even to members of other species.
Did ancient technological advancements drive social innovation, or vice versa? Studying cause and effect in the ancient world may seem like a fool’s errand, but researchers built a database to do just that.
The characterisation of Aboriginal worlds at 1788 is the central debate between Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and Peter Sutton and Kerryn Walshe’s Farmers or Hunter-gatherers.
By providing insights from different disciplines, a new book uncovers new themes in the history of Yoruba people of West Africa
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology and International Development, University of East Anglia
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, School of Humanities, University of New England
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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Chair professor, University of Oxford
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
